Word: quickening
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Nine years ago, Deng started his country walking, and now Zhao is ready to quicken the pace...
...broader scale, royalty commands loyalty perhaps because monarchs are the last great icons of our secular age, the only larger-than-life figures who can still quicken belief while dwelling in mystery. If God is dead, long live the Queen! Their titles alone suggest that kings and princesses are ambassadors from the realm of fairy tale: Who ever heard of Good President Wenceslaus or The Prime Minister and the Pea? And if the very rich, as Hemingway said, are different from you and me, then the royals are different from the very rich, separated by some indefinable chasm from those...
...Things quicken and contract. At the Center for Family Life, Geraldine plays cards with Michael in her office, after Michael's group has dispersed. They talk in whispers. Upstairs in the convent, Mary Paul completes some paper work, prepares a dinner of cold salad and sits down to watch the news...
...will never again be able to meet as two human beings, Ladyhawke is a refreshing change of pace from the quagmire of Police Academy II's and Friday the 13th, Part V's currently flooding the movies theaters. A touch of Stephen Spielberg would spice up the plot and quicken the pace but Broderick manages to fill in the gaps quite well all by himself...
...year moratorium on capital punishment in 1977 through last year, only eleven Americans were put to death legally. Stephens' execution last week, however, was the 20th this year. Not since 1963 have the states executed so many people. Next year the rate of executions seems sure to quicken, perhaps to one a week: by most reckonings, about 50 of the more than 1,400 inmates now on death row will be put to death. "There is no question that the system is gearing up," says Richard Brody, director of the anti-death-penalty project for the NAACP Legal Defense...